middle grade blog tour // movie star cast

13 May 2014

WHICH ACTORS WOULD YOU LOVE TO HAVE PLAY THE MAIN CHARACTERS IN YOUR BOOKS IF THEY WERE MADE INTO FILMS?

JANE HARDSTAFF author of The
Executioner’s Daughter

MOSS – She’s too old now butSaoirse Ronan is the right mix of brave, thoughtful and
rabbit-quick, with a fierce sense of right and wrong. It’s got to be someone
who can do naïve without being too childlike. Tudor London is a tough world. To
survive, Moss must draw on qualities she never knew she had.

SALTER – I’m going for a 12 year old James McAvoy. He’d be
perfect – cheeky and reckless – an orphan boy prepared to do whatever it takes
to stay alive. But vulnerable too.

PA– Big, gruff, protective Pa, the Tower of London’s
Executioner, is a man doing the best he can in an impossible situation, I
choose Sean Bean – Boromir himself – powerful player of men who struggle with
the demons of their past.

THE RIVERWITCH– Helena Bonham Carter would be my
tattered, gothic Riverwitch. Ethereal and restless, she haunts the rivers,
looking for children to snatch. There’s a fleeting tenderness underneath all
malevolence and I think HBC would be brilliant at handling this contradiction.

THE RAGGED MAN – Well, I thought about Peter Capaldi,
who would be excellent at harbouring a lifelong bitterness that turns him bad.
But my first choice would be Tom Hiddleston – layer upon layer of hurt, cruelty
and a chink of pity. Ok, he would need a lot of makeup.

There’s
still time for Quvenzhane Wallis to learn a British accent and play JOSEPHINE! I think she’d be perfect.

As
for the others, it’s rather difficult to think of child actors who I’m familiar
with who are the right age now. For
instance, Georgie Henley (who played Lucy in the most recent Narnia films) would be a great ALICE …
in around 2006.)

Similarly
I haven’t seen any dramas featuring
Australian-Filipino boy actors, but going by looks, JB Agustin, a Filipino
child actor would make a lovely NOEL and CARL… well, maybe Sam Concepcion
around ten years ago.

JASON ROHAN
author of The Sword of Kuromori

I’m a movie buff. When I was
a kid, my father would read the opening credits of a film and declare whether
or not it would be any good based on who the director was. I’m not at that
level, but I do watch most of the Hollywood
blockbusters that come out each year and I know my key grip from my best boy.

Having said that, much as I
would love to see The Sword of Kuromori
made into a film, the casting would not be easy, as most of the talent would
have to be Japanese, for obvious reasons.

The main boy character is KENNY BLACKWOOD, aged fifteen, and in Japan
for the first time. As he’s a fair-haired, slightly awkward English teenager, I
picture him as a younger Alex Pettyfer.

KIYOMI HARASHIMA is the female lead, a
fourteen year old Japanese girl who is handy with a sword and isn’t afraid to
kick ass and take names. This would have to be a breakout role for an unknown
actress, but I reckon someone like a youngerJessica Jung would fit the part.
She’s an American born Korean pop star who is fluent in English and can handle
the physical aspects of the role.

To round out the cast,
Hiroyuki Sanada would play KIYOMI'S FATHER, Colin Firth would be KENNY'S DAD and the former sumo legend Akebono would be OYAMA, the
manservant.

If I can be greedy, I’d have
Gareth Evans in the director’s chair and Guillermo del Toro as executive
producer. I’ll do the script, thank you very much!

Thanks for stopping by everyone! If i had to choose a *favourite* dream cast i think i would pick...Jamie Buxton's because..well, Daniel Radcliff and Jenna Coleman and Benedict Cumberbatch? SOLD.